HEALING/WHOLEMAKING: There are differences in opinion over
exactly what constitutes a healing, but I use it to describe both
the restoration of balance, and the process leading to make one
whole. Thus, it is not just the removal of some undesirable
condition, but a much deeper, more involved process. A healing
can also take place on a larger scale, such as healing a rupture
that has occurred in a relationship, or a division that has taken
place in a group or organization. And thus healing need not be
thought of only in medical terms, but on any level.

MAVERICK: This word came from Samuel A. Maverick, an American
pioneer and rancher who did not brand his cattle, unlike all the
other ranchers around him. Many people do not really understand
the meaning of this word and tend to confuse it with words like
rebel, and even revolutionary. When they do this, naturally they
assume that Chiron is just a smaller version of Uranus. But
Maverick does not mean rebel. The word came to mean one who takes
a stand apart from his associates - an independent individual who
refuses to conform to his own group - one who does not align
himself with any particular party, faction, or particular stand -
one without the mark of the herd branded into his side as it its
in his contemporaries. The easiest way to understand the term
Maverick is to think of Chiron's placement---in between Saturn
[the authority, the established group and its rules], and Uranus
[the rebel, the revolutionary, the individualist who openly
breaks away from the system]. ! So Maverick does not wear any
brand to say he can be labeled as following the group
ideology---yet at the same time, he does not carry the banner of
protest against said ideology. Maverick follows his own
course---although he soon may discover that he attracts followers
along the way.

My favorite description of maverick comes from a stroy written by Gordon
R. Dickson entitled "Maverick":

"a word meaning someone without the ownership mark all his
herd-fellows wear, burned into their hides. Every society has a
few mavericks. You can tell us by our distinguishing marks, if
you know what to look for. For one thing, we refuse to live by
the herd rules, so we're forced to make up our own rules instead.
And then live by them."

QUEST: This is an important key. It is the root from which we
get the word question, and has as its essence a seeking after
truth. Along with this come romantic images conjured up from
great, oft-told myths and tales. Thus the word also has come to
connote a transformation that occurs in the Questor as a result
of pursuing his quest.

GUIDE: This is someone, or something, which helps to lead or
direct someone on a course they are taking, or in the proper
direction to reach their goal. It is important to realize that a
guide need not be a living being. It can be a spirit, or even
some inanimate object, or the words of someone coming to one from
a book.

KEY: This is something that enables one to gain access to
someplace, or to something, but it is also a means of preventing
such access. It can be that one small piece of information, that
enables one to understand the solution to a problem. What is most
important about a Key is the recognition of its existence. Before
one realizes a Key exists one may not believe there is any
solution to a problem---or, one may not even recognize that a
problem exists. But once the Key is discovered the first step in
the solution has been taken. One who has the Key actually also
has control. He can keep others from opening a door, and
therefore keep them from solving their problem. Thus a Key is
necessary to both open---and close---a door [or even an electric
circuit---Key is used to denote a small electric switch].

DOORWAY: A doorway is, in effect, not belonging to either
world. Take the doorway of a house. If you are outside, you cross
through to go in, while if inside, you cross through to go out.
While the door may be part of the house, and block entrance or
exit when closed---the doorway itself is totally neutral. It
belongs to both worlds--- or neither, depending on your point of
view. If you think of the walls of the house as being Saturn, the
insides of the house as being the inner planets, and the outside
of the house represented by Uranus, Neptune and Pluto---then the
doorway itself can be seen as Chiron.

CHIROS: Time has usually been considered the realm of the
planet Saturn, but in actuality, Saturn only rules one type of
time--chronological time [duration]. Chiros (Kairos) represents time that
is outside that realm---time that obeys an entirely different set
of laws [if it does, indeed, obey any laws at all]. It is this
time that Einstein referred to in his explanation of relativity:
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems
like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute---and
its longer than any hour. That's relativity." And it is also
this concept that Robert Heinlein focuses on, when [in his book,
Stranger in a Strange Land] he has his character Michael
Valentine Smith talk about a 'cusp'---a time when all else fades
away, and all attention is turned to the making of a crucial
decision. Chiros has even been called 'timeless time'. Many
people have been able to enter this type of time through deep
meditation. Remember that Chiron's orbit is, for the most part,
beyond Saturn, and that will assist you in contemplating a
time which is not ruled by the clock or the calendar.

LOOPHOLE: This is a very special means of escape. In a legal
document, if there is some ambiguity in the text, or the omission
of some important point, one can use this Loophole to get out of
the contract, or evade the obligation. Taking this a bit further,
a loophole is any small opening that may permit air, or light to
come in---or permit what is in to come out---without destroying
the document, wall, or division which contains the loophole.

QUALIFIER: Each category [ruled by Saturn] has very specific
requirements or standards that describes all members of the
category. A Qualifier is THE whole that sets the limit to a
category. For example, if the category is the element Gold, then
we cannot take one of the electrons from an atom of Gold, and
call the electron Gold. An atom represents the smallest piece of
matter which can still retain the name Gold. Break it into
smaller pieces-such as electrons, and you no longer have Gold.
Thus, an atom is a qualifier of the category 'element'.